The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) would continue to attack Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, an ISAF spokesman told a press conference on Wednesday.

"We will continue to target known Taliban extremist leaders, the enemies of peace, in order to drive them out," said Tom Collins, the spokesman.

He made these remarks amid the ongoing insurgency in southern Afghanistan.

About 4,500 ISAF and 1,000 Afghan troops launched a major operation dubbed as Operation Achilles in the southern Helmand province last Tuesday against Taliban militants.

Collins said Mullah Jamaludin, a senior Taliban commander in Garmsir district of Helmand province, was killed by NATO troops recently.

The Taliban claimed 2,000 suicide bombers would launch a bloody spring offensive against foreign troops in this country.

More than 400 people, mostly militants, have been killed this year in Afghanistan.

Source: Xinhua